DPS releases name from morning fatality

Updated 4:31 pm, Tuesday, April 22, 2014

A head-on collision between a pickup truck and a garbage truck on West Port Arthur Road on Tuesday resulted in a Beaumont man's death.

The crash occurred about 5:45 a.m. on W. Port Arthur Road at S. Garden Road between a trash truck and a Toyota truck towing a small fishing boat. The driver of the Toyota drifted into the northbound traffic lane and struck the trash tuck head-on, police said.

The passenger of the Toyota, Cuong Nguyen, 28, of Beaumont, was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle, police said. He died at the scene.The drivers of both vehicles were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.